Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Bridge City was incorporated as a city on July 7, 1970. In that time period there has been only four city secretaries. The current city secretary since 2003, Sherry Tisdale, said she will be stepping down in October after serving under several mayors and council members and doing recovery work after a few hurricanes. "I work directly for the city council. I have seven bosses," she joked. "The most repetitive thing I do is the agenda and the minutes." Another aspect of the job...
You don't need a newspaper to tell you it's hot outside. But imagine living in this heat without a place to stay. For the homeless population, they don't have to imagine. They suffer through it everyday. The homeless are thought of during frigid temperatures, but what about during scalding temperatures? Shilo Taylor, of Bridge City, with LOVE Lunchsack Ministry would know. She's been ministering to the Golden Triangle homeless population since 2009. Though they help in all of...
Orange County Sheriff Keith Merritt presents former Orange mayor Essie Bellfield with a miniature sheriff’s badge at Tuesday’s County Commissioners meeting. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers Dave Rogers For The Record The new county judge and two outgoing commissioners clashed over how to take out the trash at Tuesday’s Commissioners’ Court. The final vote was 3-1, with Precinct 4 Commissioner Jody Crump against, to discharge the current janitorial contractors and to hire four $1...
Connie Dyson was serious, but all smiles as she passed along her own eye-opening experience several years back.“The girls were planning a 50^th anniversary get together for some dear friends and as usual I had already taken the bull by the horns before we even met,” she recalled in great detail. “I had conservatively estimated the number of friends and relatives that would attend, reserved a meeting place and ordered five hundred pounds of crawfish in advance.Several of us had already agreed to the proposed date and I knew...
Photo: Adams Bayou at Interstate 10 contains 43 exposed pilings supporting four bridges and a pipeline, says North Orange homeowner Tom Clary. He believes the pilings caused snags that caused flooded he and his neighbors during Tropical Storm Harvey. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers Dave Rogers For The Record Homeowners in North Orange blame what they call the “West Lutcher Drive dam bridges” for making Harvey flooding back up into their homes last summer. They want the bridges rem...
Photo: County employees Michelle Tubbleville and Clark Slacum accept congratulations from Orange County Commissioners’ Court Tuesday for putting together a grant proposal which brought $82,000 to help prepare for future flooding. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers Dave Rogers For The Record Auditor Pennee Schmitt asked Commissioners’ Court to establish a special budget Tuesday and her bosses were more than happy to agree. The budget was for a deposit of nearly $10 million after FEMA delivered a $9.3 million reimbursement late las...
